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I try to upgrade my system but I get the following:
( 1/890) upgrading linux-api-headers [##########################################] 100%
( 2/890) upgrading tzdata [##########################################] 100%
( 3/890) upgrading iana-etc [##########################################] 100%
( 4/890) upgrading filesystem [##########################################] 100%
warning: /etc/nsswitch.conf installed as /etc/nsswitch.conf.pacnew
warning: /etc/profile installed as /etc/profile.pacnew
warning: directory permissions differ on /root/
filesystem: 755 package: 750
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file /usr/sbin
error: problem occurred while upgrading filesystem
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.What to do?
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So, you didn't update your system for quite a while, eh? ;-)
Seriously: https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/
You have to do the /bin, /sbin/, /usr/sbin to /usr/bin transition.
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In general it's a good idea to go through all of the Archlinux announcement and to do, what they tell you to do.. :-)
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Yes, I haven't updated for a while. But my /usr/sbin contained only 1 file, a softlink for "lxdm". After that I tried again to do the update, and then it worked. However after installing 890 package updates, lxdm refused to start at boot. I had to downgrade: "harfbuzz", "cairo", "pango" and also installing "libxfont" from source (what I had to remove first due to some dependency issue), because it is needed for my nvidia-96xx-dkms driver and xorg-server 1.12. Or else I got symbol lookup errors from the abovementioned packages when running startx manually. After that lxdm still refuse to start at boot, but if I login to terminal and I run "startx" manually, then it starts properly.
Last edited by anselm (2018-05-03 17:16:10)
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Did you install lxdm from community? It sounds like you had a locally compiled version of lxdm.
Can you just forcefully reinstall lxdm and see what happens?
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